On 3/17/2011 6:43 AM, elisabeth bauer wrote:
2011/3/17 Carol Moore in DCcontac...@carolmoore.net:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters
My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier
version of to a bunch of women with no positive feedback.
What do
on 3/17/11 12:22 PM, Sandra ordonez at sandratordo...@gmail.com wrote:
Laura, I hope you dont feel bad. Whether people agree or not, you were
sharing your perspective, and thats one of the reasons for this list, so
women on Wikipedia can feel more empowered to voice their opinion. And the
men -
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:43 AM, elisabeth bauer efleb...@googlemail.comwrote:
I don't think outreach letters, however well formulated, will motivate
many people to try editing Wikipedia. If you know the women you sent
your letter to, why not rather invite them to an edit wikipedia party?
I saw an incident recently on WP that's fairly common, but it's not
clear to me what we should do about it, if anything.
A woman editor did something that a few male editors didn't like, and
she was taken to task for it. In the course of the discussion, the
Wikipedia biography of a woman was
The behavior you describe is all too common on Wikipedia (and even worse
on Commons). I could quote some much more blatant examples than the one
you cite, but I'll spare everyone the groans. I think the problem is
that most guys do not understand that creating an unwanted sexualized
This is great!!! Go Chica!! I would also add something about how info shared
on this list is used and boundaries but would like to think of wording more
Just thinking out loud. We want to:
*create an editing environment in which women in all the different
language Wikipedias feel safe
First, I would like to say that, as a male editor of Wikipedia, seeing the
discourse of this week, I was upset and I was inspired to look inward,
questioning my position here on gendergap. I will refrain from taking a
dominant position (if I ever did), and I have something legitimate to say
I saw an incident recently on WP that's fairly common, but it's not
clear to me what we should do about it, if anything.
A woman editor did something that a few male editors didn't like, and
she was taken to task for it. In the course of the discussion, the
Wikipedia biography of a woman was
on 3/17/11 8:11 PM, The Richardsons at dons...@optonline.net wrote:
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Before this, I was mostly opposed to forking. But if this were separated
into a female, male, and co-ed group, and perhaps each person could be a
member if one or two appropriate ones, then we would not have such a
Just for information -
Whoever starts actioning this needs to be careful. The community
lashbacks over trying to limit abusive behavior in other areas (the
civility arguments, etc) have been severe at times.
A lot of men will take That was sexist and is creating a hostile
environment, please
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Nice find Fred. I hadn't read those before. It sounds like revision
deletion might be an option in more extreme cases.
Less extreme cases should be taken here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts
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